Lit Hub Daily: January 5, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1932, Umberto Eco is born.
- We send a last thank you and goodby to the members of the literary community we lost in 2025. | Lit Hub
- Elspeth Wilson on the joys of becoming a literary omnivore. | Lit Hub Criticism
- How François Mackandal and the enslaved of Saint-Domingue struck fear into the hearts of the ruling class. | Lit Hub History
- “I don’t know if I believe in signs. But in that moment, I needed one.” On the cycle of life, death, and birding. | Lit Hub Craft
- “The Devil’s Wife remembers the good times.” Read a poem by Patricia Spears Jones from the collection The Devil’s Wife Considers. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “In the dream, someone removed her arm and shredded it like a block of cheese, and it would’ve just been a creepy nightmare if she hadn’t woken up with dirt in her bed.” Read Aimee Bender’s “Visitations” from Elastic, a new print magazine of psychedelic art and literature. | Lit Hub Fiction
- What are besties for? On the medieval women writers who challenged ideas of friendship. | JSTOR Daily
- Gina Gagliano considers what the demise of Baker & Taylor means for the comics industry. | The Comics Journal
- On the rise of a new golden age of lesbian pulp fiction: “The lesbian seems to have been toppled, at least for now, off the pedestal of political purity to which the pop-feminist sex politics of the 2010s assigned her.” | The Baffler
- How Susan Sontag became an icon of both academia and pop culture. | The MIT Press Reader
- “I am starting to think I will never receive my personalized, likely AI-generated horny Shrek Christmas ornaments I purchased from Wear and Decor.” Matthew Gault on the proliferation of AI scam products. | 404 Media
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